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Lifestyle Yoga World As we continue with our fast paced, yet sedentary lifestyle, most of us seem to have left behind an important element – HEALTH.

Thus, we fall prey to various disorders that affect us adversely. What if we told you there was a simple solution to this?.

A dharamshala is not a hotel. It is the shelter where a pilgrim stops on a long road.That is where we are going.Sharanam...
06/08/2026

A dharamshala is not a hotel. It is the shelter where a pilgrim stops on a long road.That is where we are going.Sharanam — the Sanskrit word for refuge — opens today.

Six nights in the Kangra Valley, beneath the Dhauladhar range, from 29 November to 5 December.

We chose that week deliberately. In early December the mountains are withdrawing. The light shortens, the high peaks take their first snow, and the whole valley turns inward.

Patanjali gave this movement a name — pratyahara, the fifth limb: the senses drawing back from the world the way a tortoise draws in its limbs. It is the hardest limb to teach in a city. In the Himalaya in late autumn you do not have to teach it.

The landscape does the practice with you, and you follow.Seven days of sunrise sadhana, pranayama, deep meditation, yoga nidra. A day among the monasteries of McLeod Ganj.
A walking meditation to Sidh Baba temple. Spring water, a bonfire, sound under a cold sky.
Limited Space. One group, one guide, every session held by me from the first breath to the closing blessing.You will not travel to a place of rest. You will build one, and carry it home.
Details and enquiries at the link in bio — or message us on WhatsApp.

Know More:https://www.lifestyleyogaworld.com/events/sharanam-%c2%b7-dharamshala-yoga-meditation-retreat-2026/

Nobody walks into day one of a teacher training believing they are a teacher.They walk in as a practitioner. Someone who...
05/08/2026

Nobody walks into day one of a teacher training believing they are a teacher.

They walk in as a practitioner. Someone who found something on the mat they can't quite explain, and who has started to suspect that the practice is asking for more than an hour of their morning.

Over seventeen years on the 4th floor of the Shangri-La, more than a thousand teachers have trained with us. It is worth saying plainly where they went.

Some teach at studios and fitness centres across Dubai and the UAE. Some lead corporate wellness sessions inside companies — the same offices they used to sit in. Some teach privately and online, to students on three continents, from wherever they happen to be. Some have opened studios of their own, in the UAE, in India, in the UK.

And some never taught a public class at all. They came to understand the practice properly, went back to their own lives, and found that the understanding was the point.

All of those are complete outcomes. None of them is a failure.

Two cohorts open next month. The 13-weekend format begins 12 September, built for people who are keeping their jobs. The 25-day weekday intensive begins 14 September, for those who want to disappear into it completely.

Yoga Alliance USA, RYT-200. Taught in the classical Himalayan tradition — Patanjali, Hatha Yoga Pradipika, the Gita — alongside anatomy that keeps your future students safe.

Early-bird enrolment closes 31 August. Link in bio to apply, or WhatsApp us and ask the honest questions first.

— Sumit Manav, E-RYT 500

If something keeps pulling you back to this — I want to talk to you directly.Not to sell you anything.To tell you what I...
05/08/2026

If something keeps pulling you back to this — I want to talk to you directly.

Not to sell you anything.

To tell you what I tell every student before they enrol: this training will change you. Not because of the certification. But because 13 weekends of immersing yourself in the complete system of yoga quietly dismantles things you didn't know were keeping you small.

I have watched it happen with over 1,000 students. Every single time.

If you are ready — or even almost ready — the link is in the bio. Or send me a DM. I personally read every one.

September 12 · Shangri-La Hotel · Dubai. Early bird rate: AED 9,000. Limited spots remaining.

— Sumit

03/08/2026

Some experiences can't be explained—they can only be felt. ✨

The World Yoga Festival wasn't just an event. It was a gathering of hearts, souls, and teachers united by one purpose: to inspire healing, connection, and transformation.

To everyone who joined us, thank you for bringing your energy. And to every teacher who shared their wisdom and light, thank you for touching lives in ways words never could.

If this message resonates with you, share it with someone who needs this reminder today. Together, we can spread more peace, gratitude, and love—one soul at a time. 🤍

Two cohorts start this September. Same 200 hours. Two completely different lives around them.Most people who want to tea...
03/08/2026

Two cohorts start this September. Same 200 hours. Two completely different lives around them.

Most people who want to teach don't fail because they aren't ready. They fail because they picked a format their life couldn't hold.

So here it is plainly.

The weekend format — from 12 September.
Thirteen weekends. Saturday and Sunday, roughly seven to eight hours a day. You keep your job, your family rhythm, your Monday morning. The learning stays with you through the week — you practise what you were given, you notice it in your body, you come back six days later changed. Slow absorption. This is for the person who has a career and does not intend to pause it.

The weekday intensive — from 14 September.
Twenty-five days, Monday to Friday, across five weeks. Six to seven hours a day. No commute back to your other self. In the classical tradition this is closer to how the teaching was actually transmitted — sustained proximity, no interruption, the nervous system finally staying in one state long enough to reorganise. This is for the career-breaker, the visitor, the person who wants immersion rather than instalments of it.

Both are Yoga Alliance USA RYT-200. Both are held on the 4th floor at the Shangri-La, Sheikh Zayed Road. Both cover Hatha, Raja and Vinyasa in the classical Himalayan lineage, with the Yoga Sutras, the Hatha Yoga Pradipika and the Gita read as working manuals, not decoration.

The certificate is identical. The question is only which shape your next three months can honestly take.

Early bird closes 31 August. A three-instalment plan exists for both formats — ask us.

Link in bio. Or send us a message and tell us what your week actually looks like — we'll tell you which door is yours.

https://www.lifestyleyogaworld.com/200hr-yoga-teacher-training-dubai/

If you have been thinking about this for a while — this is the slide to screenshot and send to your partner.Everything i...
31/07/2026

If you have been thinking about this for a while — this is the slide to screenshot and send to your partner.

Everything in one place. The curriculum. The schedule. The venue. Who it is for. What is included. And the investment.

12 modules. 13 weekends. Shangri-La Hotel Dubai. Led by Sumit Manav — 25 years, 1,000+ graduates. Yoga Alliance USA certified. Your weekday life completely unchanged.

This is the most complete yoga teacher training in Dubai. Built for people who want to understand the full system — not just the postures.

Early bird rate: AED 9,000. A small number of spots remain at this price. When they are filled — they are filled.

September 12. The link is in the bio.

Or DM us any question. We respond to every message personally.

30/07/2026

One month from today, a small group of us leaves for Ubud.

29 August to 4 September. Six nights at Basundari, tucked between rice fields and jungle just outside Ubud.

I've been asked more than once why we go to Bali when our lineage is Himalayan. The honest answer: the mountains teach you to withdraw, and Bali teaches you to soften. Both are needed. And after a Dubai summer, most bodies arriving on that mat need softening far more than they need discipline.

The week is shaped around the five elements — earth, water, fire, air, ether. It gives the days a spine. What grounds you, what moves through you, what needs to burn, what needs to lift, and what's still there when the rest quiets down.

Here is what the six nights include:

Accommodation in your chosen room at Basundari
Vegetarian meals — breakfast, lunch and dinner, sourced from local farms
Daily yoga and meditation sessions, all led personally by me
A sacred Balinese welcome ritual with a Pemangku — offerings, sarongs, Tirtha holy water
Two 60-minute Balinese massages
A 90-minute cacao ceremony with sound healing
A day excursion to Tirta Empul temple, the Ubud Monkey Forest and Tegenungan waterfall
Airport transfers
We keep the group small deliberately. On a retreat this size I can see what your practice is doing by the third morning and adjust for you specifically — which is the whole point of going away to practise rather than practising at home.

If you have been circling this one since we announced it, a month out is the moment to decide. Rooms and full details are here:

https://www.lifestyleyogaworld.com/events/bali-yoga-retreat/

Questions of any kind — rooms, flights, whether your practice is "ready" (it is) —
WhatsApp us on +971 56 624 1002 and you'll get me or the team, not a bot.

Huberman Lab calls it breathwork. Wim Hof built an empire on it. Andrew Weil has been teaching it for thirty years.Patan...
30/07/2026

Huberman Lab calls it breathwork. Wim Hof built an empire on it. Andrew Weil has been teaching it for thirty years.

Patanjali codified the complete system 2,000 years ago. He called it Pranayama.

And his version goes far deeper than anything a research paper has captured yet.

Nadi Shodhana. Kapalabhati. Bhramari. Ujjayi. Five techniques. Five distinct effects on the nervous system, the brain, and the energy body — each one precise, tested, and ancient.

In our 200-Hour Teacher Training in Dubai, Pranayama is not a breathing exercise at the end of class. It is a complete science. Taught the way it was always meant to be.

Early bird rate: AED 9,000. September 12 · Shangri-La Hotel · Yoga Alliance USA certified.

Save this post. Share it with someone who follows Huberman but has never heard of Pranayama.

Link in bio to reserve your place.
https://www.lifestyleyogaworld.com/200hr-yoga-teacher-training-dubai/

🙏 Guru PurnimaYears ago a student came to a teacher and said, "Teach me the highest asana."The teacher handed him a glas...
29/07/2026

🙏 Guru Purnima

Years ago a student came to a teacher and said, "Teach me the highest asana."

The teacher handed him a glass of water and said, "Hold this. Arms straight."

After one minute the student smiled. After ten, his arm shook. After twenty, he was in pain.

"Teacher, the glass has become so heavy."

"The glass never changed weight," the teacher said. "You did. It became heavy because you refused to put it down."

The student asked, "So what do I do?"

"Put it down. Rest. Pick it up again — lighter."

That was the whole teaching.

We do this with more than glasses. We carry the argument from last week. The version of ourselves we've outgrown. The mistake from years ago that no one else even remembers.

It isn't heavy because it's big. It's heavy because we won't set it down.

This is what the mat is really for. Not to become flexible — to become *light.* Every exhale is permission to put something down.

Today, on Guru Purnima, I bow to every teacher who taught me that. And I bow to you — because every student who walks in has taught me something too.

What will you put down today?

Happy Guru Purnima. 🕉️

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